Southern Saints | ||
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Names | ||
Full name | Sandringham Football Club | |
Nickname(s) | Saints, Sainters | |
2024 season | ||
Home-and-away season | 13th | |
Club details | ||
Founded | October 2017 | |
Colours | Red White Black | |
Competition | VFL Women's | |
Coach | Michelle 'Alpha' Densley [1] | |
Uniforms | ||
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Other information | ||
Official website | sandringhamfc.com.au | |
The Southern Saints are an Australian rules football club playing in the VFL Women's (VFLW), the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. It is affiliated with the Sandringham Football Club, which competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [2]
The Southern Saints entered the VFLW in 2018, after the Seaford Football Club opted to transfer its licence to the St Kilda Football Club. [2]
In its first season, the club had an agreement with the Frankston Football Club. It finished 8th on the ladder at the end of the season. [3]
In 2019, St Kilda and its VFL affiliate, Sandringham, moved to co-manage the club. Since St Kilda entered the AFL Women's competition in 2020, Sandringham holds the Southern Saints team licence. [4]
The club's best season came in 2022, when it finished fifth on the home-and-away ladder. They lost in the grand final to Essendon, going down by 35 points. [5]
Before 2018, the St Kilda Sharks competed in the VFLW, and before that, in the now-defunct Victorian Women's Football League. [6]
Premiers | Grand Finalist | Minor premiers | Finals appearance | Wooden spoon | VFLW leading goalkicker | Lambert–Pearce Medal |
Year | League | Finish | W | L | D | Coach | Captain | Best and fairest | Leading goalkicker | Goals | Ref |
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2018 | VFLW | 8th | 5 | 9 | 0 | ||||||
2019 | VFLW | 2nd | 11 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
2020 | VFLW | (No season) | (No season) | ||||||||
2021 | VFLW | 6th | 7 | 7 | 0 | Dale Robinson | Frankie Hocking | Tara Bohanna [7] | 19 | [8] | |
2022 | VFLW | 5th | 9 | 4 | 1 | Dale Robinson | Deanna Jolliffe [9] | Olivia Flanagan [10] | 10 | [11] | |
2023 | VFLW | 7th | 8 | 6 | 0 | Michelle 'Alpha' Densley | Ali Hynes; Tayla Kearns | Gabriella De Angelis [12] | 10 | [13] | |
2024 | VFLW | 13th | 4 | 10 | 0 | Michelle 'Alpha' Densley | Chloe Hunt [14] | 18 | [15] |
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Another season as captain of the Southern Saints and a VFLW Grand Final berth to boot made it quite memorable
Southern Saints captain Deanna Jolliffe and coach Dale Robinson would love nothing more than to get thir hands on the silverware again on Sunday.